What’s Making Me Happy This Week: Tunde Olaniran – NamesakeThe massive chorus on this track by the artist from Flint, Michigan has been my happy place, my daily pick-me-up for a couple of weeks now (Thanks, NPR Music’s Austin 100!) Then I discovered the corresponding music video – amazing!Also great this week, but more local: …
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“Let’s hear it for your third attempt at trying to hack it in the real world”
“Snitch Jacket” is a great new song by Two Inch Astronaut, offering, as Lars Gotrich for NPR Music puts it, “real talk – whether you’re a 20-something or just endlessly haunted by past failures.” Two Inch Astronaut is post-punk in the same way I’m post-graduate. Potentially professional, perennially yearning. Two Inch Astronaut’s new record “Can …
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Gaelynn Lea’s Tiny Desk ConcertGaelynn Lea’s performance at NPR’s Tiny Desk was released yesterday (and shot this week) and it’s about as wonderful as I hoped. She performed her winning song “Someday We’ll Linger in the Sun” and “Southwind,” a centuries old fiddle tune. For the second half of the performance she was joined by …
Gaelynn Lea: Someday We’ll Linger in the Sun Gaelyn Lea, a classical violinist/fiddle player from Duluth, Minnesota, is the winner of the 2016 NPR Tiny Desk Concert, and I am so glad they introduced me to her music. With her violin, a loop pedal and her voice she creates these spellbinding, odd melodies and harmonies that …
npr: nprmusic: Listen: Austin 100 To get ready for SXSW 2016, we listened to more than 1,800 artists. Check out the app we made of the 100 musicians we’ll be keeping an eye on this year in Austin. 100 new songs to discover! 🎧 -Emily OMG, the best moment of every music year is here: The …
“Warning: Kate Tempest will connect you with your emotions and the cold, callous world around you. You may cry.” Bob Boilen is right, and this NPR Tiny Desk performance by Kate Tempest is stunning. The first track is a spoken word piece about soldiers coming home form war fought for gold, and the two hiphop tracks …
Hop Along did a great Tiny Desk Concert session for NPR Music, and it doesn’t even include my favorite song of the moment, Waitress. I’m especially enchanted by this version of Horseshoe Crabs, Frances Quinlan’s voice always on the edge of precipice and power.(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
YouTube is starting to get me. Recommended: Short, concise Butler video explaining gender performance v. performativity. Wonderful Madisen Ward and The Mama Bear Tiny Desk Concert including the hit “Silent Movies.”
The New Torres Album is Even Better than the Hype
The new Torres album Sprinter is even better than the hype by NPR Music had me believe.Strange Hellos is still one of the biggest songs I’ve heard in quite a while with an amazing musical breadth and emotional depth.A Proper Polish Welcome is as intimate and enchanting on the record as it was as a …
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Stromae (here introduced to SXSW and the US by NPR music; one of the rare cases when the States are about 5 years late.) knows his 90s dance synths and he knows how to use them. But don’t be deceived by the hook and dance beats. This is an anthem about postmodern late-capitalist ennui combatted …
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